Sentence examples for contained a possibility from inspiring English sources

It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.

We react to faces that we perceive as angry faster than to "happy" faces because they contain a greater possibility of danger.

The agreement to join the Confederation contained a clause outlining the possibility that the federal government of Canada could provide a grant of up to CA$800,000 to the provincial government to facilitate the purchase of the land from the proprietors.

UNITED NATIONS — Months of wrangling at the Security Council over a resolution condemning Syria collapsed on Tuesday after Russia and China vetoed a measure that contained a weak reference to the possibility of sanctions against Damascus.

This chapter contains a cavalcade of possibilities and a display of typical and necessary orders of magnitudes.

"The Unanswered Question," Ives's fathomless miniature, contains a universe of musical possibilities, with a quartet of flutes and a solo trumpet tangling atonally over an impervious background of serenely glowing strings.

The present paper contains a short discussion on possibilities and difficulties connected with fabrication of transparent oxide conductors and semiconductors for the use in transparent electronics.

As Hu explains, the idea of wholeness was important, since it contained the possibility that an entire network could continue functioning even if one node along the way went offline, a resilience that held special appeal for the military.

Although the leases contain a clause warning of the possibility of a mid-lease change, Mr. Beaudoin and other tenants say they had received assurances — sometimes in writing — from leasing agents that midterm increases would never happen.

Note that similarly to other pseudomonads, SBW25 does not contain a phosphofructokinase, thus lacking the possibility to phosphorylate fructose-6-phosphate.

Saturday night contains an infinity of possibilities.